Calling Good, Good

Isaiah 5:13-24 ESV

13 Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her.

15 Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.

16 But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.

17 Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,

19 who say: “Let him be quick, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!”

20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!

22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,

23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

30 MINUTES with GOD: Suggested Guidelines for your Daily Meditation

Select a block of 30 minutes each day for your meditation with God.

1. Pray to begin your meditation.
2. Read and ask general questions about the passage for your own life: (a) What is God telling me?  (b) How does God want me to respond to this reading? 
3. Reflect on your life through this passage: (a) Think about your blessings. (b) Think about your journey with God: past, present and future.
4. Memorize and repeat a word, a phrase, a sentence or verse. 
5. Pray through the passage, or about your thoughts from the passage: (a) Praise God (b) Give thanks (c) Confess your sins (d) Repent of your sins.

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